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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information she has collected on growth in research income for universities in (a) the sciences and (b) the arts over the last five years; and if she will publish the figures for such growth, broken down by department. [19458] Margaret Hodge: The information requested is laid out in the following table. These figures represent total research income from HEFCE and external sources over five years. Time series of total research income{ 1} Data are for England only _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 Change in income{ 2} Subject group (£ million) (£ million) (£ million) (£ million) (£ million) (Percentage) Clinical medicine 463.2 501.0 521.8 562.7 603.6 30.3 Engineering 287.7 298.1 313.8 335.2 338.3 17.6 Sciences 670.1 684.2 737.7 803.9 854.3 27.5 Subjects allied to 130.4 130.6 148.1 165.0 181.2 39.0 medicine Total sciences 1,551.4 1,613.9 1,721.3 1,866.7 1,977.3 27.5 Arts 16.9 20.5 26.8 32.3 38.6 128.9 Education 50.1 50.6 49.0 60.2 62.3 24.4 Humanities 103.2 102.9 107.0 115.3 118.5 14.9 Social sciences 206.2 212.1 224.8 245.9 262.7 27.4 Total arts 376.4 386.1 407.6 453.7 482.2 28.1 Total 1,927.7 2,000.1 2,129.0 2,320.4 2,459.5 27.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} External grants and HEFCE funding {2} 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Source: HESA Finance Statistics Returns and planned HEFCE research funding allocations as announced in recurrent grant circulars or as subsequently amended.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

376 c638W; 19458

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Arts Income Higher education Universities Research Science

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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